Showing posts with label Elmore Leonard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elmore Leonard. Show all posts
Thursday, August 12, 2021

Getting by with a little help from my friends & my murder book

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The summer has come and (nearly) gone, as of this writing, and it was a whirlwind. In July, I founded and directed a summer writing institut...
Monday, June 28, 2021

What Makes It Worthwhile

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 Today I received the first half of my advance for WHISPER ROOM to be published in 2022.  My wife watched as I opened the envelope from my a...
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Thursday, February 11, 2021

Thou Shalt Dwell

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I enjoyed reading Thomas Kies’s post Thou Shalt Hoard Notebooks , partly because I love Stephen King (I’m a Mainer, after all), and partly b...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

Then She Said...

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Since mid-September, I, Donis, have been facilitating a creative writing workshop for emeritus professors at Arizona State University. T...
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Saturday, November 19, 2016

Dialog is Tricky

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I'm delighted to welcome Doug Lyle to Type M for Murder. D. P. Lyle is the Macavity and Benjamin Franklin Silver Award winning and Edga...
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Thursday, May 26, 2016

WHO NEEDS RULES?

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“There are three rules for writing a novel," W. Somerset Maugham once quipped. “Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” Anyone who...
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Thursday, January 08, 2015

Point-of-View

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I’m knee-deep in my 2016 Peyton Cote novel, tentatively titled  Destiny’s Pawn , and the process has me thinking a lot about point-of-view ...
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